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AI-first development agency · UK
Senior developers who build with AI properly.
Your Ikigai embeds experienced developers in your team, working AI-first: faster delivery, nothing slapdash, and a bill you can actually read. Websites, web applications and brands too, when you need them.
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What we do
Four ways to work with us
Pick the one that fits, or mix them. Same people, same standards either way.
1
Embedded developers
Senior developers in your team within weeks, not months. Two days a week or full time, billed monthly, no recruitment fees.
2
AI-first development
We build with AI in the loop, reviewed by people who know what good looks like. More shipped, nothing slapdash, and AI features in your product built so they don't burn tokens.
3
Bespoke software and Laravel
Customer portals, internal tools, the bespoke thing off-the-shelf software can't do. Built in Laravel and Nuxt, owned by you outright.
4
Websites and branding
Websites built for search from day one, and brands that make a start-up look like it has been around a while. Lyndsay's department.
AI-first, not AI-slop
The difference between using AI and being good with it
Anyone can paste a prompt and get code back. That's not what we sell.
Our developers work with AI all day, every day, and they've learned where it's brilliant and where it quietly lies to you. Every line it produces is reviewed by someone senior, tested before it ships, and written so the next person can understand it. When the thing we build for you uses AI itself, we design for cost from the start: what genuinely needs a model call, what can be worked out once and stored, what can be cached and reused. That is where token bills get out of hand, and it is where we have the scar tissue.
- Review gates on everything AI touches
- Tests written before the code, not after
- Developer AI tooling is a flat cost, included in your plan
- Your code is never used to train anything
the honest version
Our process
From hello to launch (and beyond)
Every project follows the same honest arc. No surprises, no jargon.
- 1
Discover the kettle goes on here
A good conversation and a decent brew. We get to know you, your customers, and what success actually looks like.
- 2
Design where it starts to feel like you
We turn your story into an identity: logo, colours, type, and a look that's unmistakably yours.
- 3
Build you own every line
We build it: fast, accessible and SEO-ready, on modern tech you own outright.
- 4
Grow the bit most agencies skip!
We stick around: measuring what matters, tweaking what doesn't, and helping you get seen.
Why bigger teams pick us
Built for clients who have been burned before
Most agencies sell you a team and then hide it behind an account manager. We do the opposite.
Invoices that explain themselves
Every line says who, how many days, and which month. Extras are agreed first and itemised. No surprises at the end of the month.
A handler who answers
One person who knows your account, runs the weekly call and picks up the phone. No ticket queue, no account-manager shuffle.
Protections written down
Non-solicitation, IP transfer on payment, a proper data processing agreement. Boring documents, deliberately, so nobody has to argue later.
boring paperwork, good sleep
Good questions
Things people ask us
Straight answers, no small print.
Get in touch
You've scrolled this far, so we should probably talk. Tell us what you're building and we'll get back to you quickly - the kettle's already on.